“What landed Jesus on the cross was the preposterous idea that common, ordinary, broken, screwed-up people could be godly.” PeopleIdeasJesusCommonBrokenOrdinaryCrossesGodlyScrewed Up Book:Messy Spirituality Source: Messy Spirituality
“One path I've used a lot is to deeply and thoughtfully consider a trope or a tradition, and then set about taking it apart - but only in the service of a character or story that deserves it. Another path I often employ is to put form into "play" - to set it free from its ordinary constraints and let it be free-floating and broken-apart and rearranged.” PlayCharacterStoriesFormUsedPathBrokenOrdinaryDeserveTraditionFloatingConstraintsTropes Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“Generally speaking we don't want to hear from the soul. We want it to just do its job. Unfortunately, in a broken world, it also is broken, and we're going to hear from it because many of the ordinary miseries and extraordinary glories of human life are expressions of the state of the soul.” WorldWantHumansSoulStatesJobsExpressionBrokenGloryOrdinaryMiseryExtraordinaryHuman LifeJust Do ItBroken World Author:Dallas Willard